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• #Send to kindle app size how to#

Manually changing the size of your cover may actually make your cover look better on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and other platforms because quite often the different vendor reduction programs don’t do as good a job. For Amazon, you will not put the cover inside your ebook, of course, but they’ll put the image you upload into the finished mobi file for you, so you can still use the same size-reducing techniques for the cover there. (There is also a maximum limit that varies between vendors.) If you are not uploading to iTunes but only other vendors, you can instead choose 1000 pixels wide.

This is because iTunes, and third parties who distribute to iTunes, want cover images with at least that width. The words you most need to remember here are “resolution” and “save for web.” For this tutorial, I am using Photoshop, but any photo editing program should have similar options.įor book covers that appear inside the ebook (not the thumbnail that vendors show), I recommend choosing a resolution of 1400 pixels wide for inside your ebook.

#Send to kindle app size how to#

How to get the right image size for ebook The take away is that you should test your book on devices of different sizes and screen resolutions to make sure the look is acceptable to you on every device. Of course, you can tell the device that the image should take 100% of the width (or any %, for that matter), but then if proportions are to be maintained the device will also have to change the image’s height. For example, the Kindle Fire only supports a 600 pixel resolution across the width, so your image will take the entire width, but on HD models, all of which support at least 800 pixels across the width, that will not be the case (click here for a list of Kindle device specifications.) It will not look consistently the same across all devices. Let’s say you create a fancy chapter heading as a 600 pixel wide image. Images are very much affected by the device’s resolution. But for chapter headings it might not be. In the case of images with no words, such as dingbats used for scene breaks or to embellish chapter headings, or your author picture, this may be a desirable outcome.

So as the user changes the font size on the device, the text will grow bigger or smaller, but images will not. While an embedded font will size with the user’s font size choice, images will not. So if the user changes the ereader’s background from white to some other color, the white background of your image will show.

The JPEF format does not support transparency, and most ereaders only support JPEG. There are some things you need to be aware of, especially if you are using images to “fancy up” chapter headings, i.e., images that are supposed to look like text. Images will show across all ereaders, and you can experiment with your images to determine a size that will not compromise your quality. But images do have a few disadvantages over embedded fonts.

Embedding a font vs using an imageĮmbedding a font can help lower file size if you have a large book with a ton of special chapter headings, but unless you know how to strip the font down to the very basics, often embedding the font will take just as much space as images, and some ereaders won’t show the font anyway, so your hard work goes to waste on those devices. It takes 1024 KBs to make one MB (not 1000 as many might think). KB stands for kilobyte (equal to 1024 bytes). Note that the size measurements I’ll be referring to here are KB and MB. Cover images, jpeg chapter images, scene breaks, author picture, and promo images all add to the final file size. Many platforms limit the ebook file size, and Amazon actually charges you 15 cents per MB, so if a book that should be less than 1 MB turns out to be 10 MB as a Kindle mobi file, that’s going to affect your bottom line. That’s because many programs like Calibre will size down images without alerting you, while Jutoh doesn’t. Sizing down is great, but in order to maintain control over the final product, it’s important to understand image resolution and quality and size the image down yourself to get the best image size for ebook. I use Jutoh to create ebooks and do all the formatting directly in the Jutoh program (as opposed to formatting in Word or another word processing program and then transferring to Jutoh), but recently a friend of mine switched to Jutoh and was surprised at the sudden increase in her finished file size. Making sure you have the right image size for ebook can seem daunting, but it’s really not all that complicated if you know a few simple things about resolution and saving images for web. Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books